Catholic entrepreneur and free speech advocate maintains he never sought to influence foreign governments' China policy.
Catholic media mogul and other protestors will remain in prison. Lai has spent three years in solitary confinement.
For the 3rd consecutive year, the Diocese of Hong Kong has had plans dashed to memorialize the 1989 massacre, with this year's due to national security laws.
A proposed national security law would require Catholic priests in Hong Kong to report treason and sedition learned about through the Sacrament of Confession.
The Caritas Institute of Higher Education, which runs some 36 educational institutes at all levels in Hong Kong, will be renamed as St. Francis University.
The visit is the continuation of a possible thaw of relations between Beijing and Rome, strained in 2022 by Beijing's violations of its accord with the Vatican.
Jimmy Lai, 75, has spent 1,000 days in jail awaiting trial.
Retired bishop and other democracy advocates insist their organization was humanitarian, not political.
Bishop emeritus and outspoken advocate must pay $512 for failing to register charity.
Magistrate finds enough evidence during preliminary hearing to go forward.
90-year-old prelate charged with financial inconsistencies of humanitarian fund.
Cardinal Emeritus Joseph Zen, 90, is accused of helping to run an aid fund for pro-democracy activists without securing permission from the state.
Articles in a Chinese Communist Party-sponsored newspaper have denounced Cardinal Joseph Zen, in what activists say is a sign that freedom of "religion is increasingly in Beijing’s sights."
Media mogul Jimmy Lai is one of eight on trial for participation in Tiananmen Square vigil.
Hong Kong prevents mass gatherings, but many gather for church services to remember pro-democracy demonstrators.
Memorials of the 1989 victims are increasingly an act of defiance, as Beijing wields heavier hand in former British colony.
Hong Kong Watch director outlines how freedoms could be impacted.
